Some like it hot: some like it queer
2003; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA MARIA; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5902/1679849x74298
ISSN1679-849X
Autores Tópico(s)European history and politics
ResumoTo speak about Billie Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959) as a queer film is not just to attribute to this tremendously droll film an avant-la-lettre status that threatens to burden it down with the freight of a sometimes dully stifling critical apparatus; it also serves to mark it off as somehow profoundly different from the general texture of Wilder's filmmaking. If Wilder was interested in making a film that could in any measure contribute to revising Hollywood's by then rather dismal and to judge by another 1959 film like Joseph L. Mankiewicz's incoherent Suddenly Last Summer, hysterical account of homosexuality it is an effort that seems to have been lost on the community of queer scholarship.
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